Phel v0.36.0 – Lisp on PHP, now with numeric tower and first-class Vars
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3 days ago
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masijo
17 minutes ago
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I've been following this project for a while, congratulations on the release!

Even though I don't have much use for PHP at the moment, I wish it finds a niche in the market and becomes widely used. Good luck!

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isaisabella
3 days ago
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Great work on this release! Glad to see the dot-separated namespace syntax being standardized in the core.
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Chemaclass
3 days ago
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Phel compiles a Clojure-flavoured Lisp to PHP. v0.36.0 ships exact rationals (1/2 literals), arbitrary-precision BigInteger with overflow auto-promotion, BigDecimal, first-class Vars (#'sym, alter-var-root, with-redefs, watches), and new value types (UUID, Queue, MapEntry). Plus REPL and test boot are notably faster.
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pkphilip
1 hour ago
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It would be great if the Phel repl could connect to a running PHP process
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Chemaclass
1 hour ago
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Phel has deep PHP interop built into the language: call any PHP function, instantiate classes, access globals via the php/ namespace from anywhere in your code.

We also ship a Phel nREPL: a bencode-over-TCP server (phel nrepl) compatible with editor tooling like Calva, CIDER, and Conjure. Connect your editor and evaluate Phel code against a running process directly.

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midnight_eclair
3 days ago
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"inspired by clojure" - is there a better signal for good taste and quality?
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manytimesaway
1 hour ago
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Inspired by PHP :^)

Just kidding, even though I both love Clojure & PHP.

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bitwize
2 hours ago
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"inspired by Scheme"

"inspired by CL"

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